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`ALEXANDER LEVERTY, OF BRIDGEPCRT, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 78,381, datedllfay 26, 1 868.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUNNING GORNICES.

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Be it known that I, ALEXANDER LEVERTY, of Bridgeport, in the county of Faireld, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Running Stucco-Cornices; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying'drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, tobe a full, clear, and `exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-H y d Figure 1, a perspective view of the mould or form, and in 7 Figure 2, two of such moulds astthey meet atan angle.

This invention relates to a'n improvement in instruments or mouldsfor running cornices or' moulding in buildings upon the Wall, the object being to more easily and perfectly form the internalangles than has heretofore been done. i I

Heretofore the mould has been constructed so as to run at a right angle from the wall, therefore the instrument oouldbe'usecl only so near the internal angle that the outer edge of the moulding on one wall would intersect with the outer edge ofthe moulding upon the other wall, and thus would leave theinte'rnul angle to be formed entirely by other means tllan'by theA former, which runs the moulding. The forming of these internal angles is one of the chief expenses in running stuceo-mouldings. By my invention the angle is filled by the same instru-` ment which runs the cornice, and it consists in the construction of two' moulds, each upon eachV individual frame,

the one so as to extend from one wall at un angle of forty-five degrees, and the other ata like angle from the other wall, that is, so that the surface ofthe two moulds will meet at the angle.

In orden to the clear understanding of my invention, I will fully describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying' drawings.

A is the mould, attached at its lower corner to a Wall-bar, B, and uponjits upper opposite corner, a ceilingplate, C, and braced by a bar, D, extending from the wall-bar to the outer extremity of the mould, the mould Avbeing at an angle of forty-five degrees from the woll-bar B, as seen in the diagram, iig. 2. The edge of the mould A is of the form of a. `sectionvof the moulding to be run, cut at nn angle of forty-live degrees. The instrument is raised in the usual manner, the wall-bur B guided on the wall, andthe plate C on the ceiling, and is run to the angle, as denoted in blue, fig. 2. Another and corresponding mould is constructed to runfnpon the other Wall, denoted in red, fig. 2., so lthat the two moulds or frames A will moet at the internal angle of the two walls, as denoted in diagram, iig. 2.

The first mould is run upon one Wall to the angle, :1s denoted in blue, then the mould held in that position, the ongle is dressed .ofl'by the surface of the mould, then the moulding upon the other wall is run to the angle, meeting and intersecting with the irst. Thus, by .the use of these two corresponding, but reverse instruments, the moulding is run upon-the wall, and the angle formed at the same operation, and in a much better manner than can be done by the process as heretofore wrought. y

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim :1s-new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Potent, is

Moulds or forms for running stueco-eornices, constructed in the manner herein described, so as to form,

complete, the molding into the'internal angles, substantially as set forth. v

. ALEX. LEVERTY.

Witnesses JonN E. EAnLn, WILLIAM KENNEFICK. 

